... the reader through personification, the reader gains greater insight and therefore a better understand of Dickinson's fascination of the expression of agony. Both imagery and personification are made more effective as literary devices because of the connotation of the words Dickinson choose to use when employing them. The descriptions "Men do not shame Convulsion, / Nor simulate, a Throe-," (line 3-4) contain words that ... : Natural for people to look away from agony, but ironic that Dickinson enjoys it. Dickinson uses irony to grab attention of reader because she likes it Use of liter...

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... have the title of a wife, even though she does not have "the sign" of marriage, or a ring. In this poem, the literary devices of tone, allusion, and trope, all build on each other to express the frustration and anger that a woman's relationship with god is dependent on her ... allows the reader to connect the allusion of religion to the frustrated tone exposing that the narrator is hostile towards religion and god. A literary trope uses language to give off the recurrent theme of the poem. The poem's theological trope establishes the background and landscape against which marriage ... t...

• Word Count: 1480
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• Grade Level: High School